Mulholland Drive Road - Where It All Began - From The Archives

Mulholland Drive
Hit the video page of HotRod.com right now and you'll find a short review of the Shelby Super Snake with Kinnan driving it on Los Angeles' impromptu road-race track, Mulholland Drive. While that twisty hilltop road is famed for '70s street racing (like Sunset Boulevard, it has a Dead Man's Curve), it was also dotted with the "inspiration point" date locales of the '50s.

Here, HOT ROD's Eric Rickman was perhaps enjoying extracurricular activities when he snapped this shot looking east to Hollywood in April 1957. We've placed an arrow at the famous Capital Records building; other shapes nearby are the historic Taft and Laemmle buildings (at Hollywood and Vine), and closer to the camera are the 1926 El Capitan and better-known Chinese theaters. The main streets, from left, working south, are Hollywood Boulevard, Sunset Boulevard, Fountain Avenue, and Santa Monica Boulevard.